[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 417 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 417

  To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to require the improvement of 
          consumer confidence reports, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 10, 2017

Mrs. Lawrence introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to require the improvement of 
          consumer confidence reports, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. IMPROVED CONSUMER CONFIDENCE REPORTS.

    Section 1414(c)(4) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300g-
3(c)(4)) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
subparagraph:
                    ``(F) Revisions.--Not later than 24 months after 
                the date of enactment of this subparagraph, the 
                Administrator, in consultation with the groups 
                identified in subparagraph (A), shall promulgate 
                revisions to the regulations issued pursuant to 
                subparagraph (A) to increase the effectiveness and 
                understandability of consumer confidence reports.''.
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